jrpigman

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Less state funding means higher tuition, higher tuition means less out-of-state dollars funding a quality education at lowered in-state tuition for Kansans, which means fewer educated Kansans, which means fewer Kansan engineers, doctors and teachers. If we as a state are to take seriously the problem of brain drain, we must address the root cause - our inability to educate and retain our own citizens.

Remember to keep the slides. Archiving slides onto hard drives is a bit like archiving stone tablets onto paper - sure, it's easier to handle and reproduce, but I have never seen a hard drive last the 30 years those slides have been in the attic. Archival digital storage is an expensive ongoing process.